GIORGIO DE CHIRICO.

SOBY THRALL, James. Giorgio de CHIRICO.

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. No date.

About this Item

Pp, 268; 195 plates, 10 tipped in colour pages slightly browned to extremities. Tipped in photograph on frontis piece. Cloth boards, head and foot of spine slightly browned, near fine. Dj flaps a little browned, 3cm triangular section lost from corner of top front edge with some closed tears. Also another 3cm section lost from head of spine, which continues in a 7cm closed tear to the front panel. Minor marks, light wear, very good. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".

Seller Inventory # NGA.SOBY.JA.GIDE.2022

Bibliographic Details

• Title: GIORGIO DE CHIRICO.
• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. No date.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good